Swallowing The Spider

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I don't know why the f.u.c.k this self proclaimed 'Spirit of Vengeance' has stopped his execution of me and I'm not gonna risk it by asking him though he can easily read my mind, why is that, even Charles Xavier and Jean Grey (without the Phoenix though I didn't risk being near her when she was in Phoenix mode) couldn't read my mind so that must mean he is some kind of higher power to get past my defences. Wait, he can still read my mind, shit... Think good thoughts, think good thoughts, think good thoughts...

It's been a few minutes of me just thinking good thoughts and the green figure is still floating above me and I can feel that he has stopped using his power on me and that I'm no longer paralysed, even then I don't dare move a muscle in fear of him deciding to kill me again and I don't even think about fighting him for even a second, I would die before I even knew what happened. Shit, my position is kinda uncomfortable just being flopped down on my bed but I don't move even an inch, I just hope that whatever revelations this arsehole is having he would hurry up and get to it already, I have things to be doing rather than cowering under this giant asshole.

His eyes twitch and lock onto me in a second, I tense and just continue looking into the deep dark green abyss that is his eyes while hoping that he won't be offended enough by my thoughts to go back to his former course of actions, dammit this is why I made sure to protect myself from mind readers back in marvel (gotta make sure that my defences are still in place here in the DC universe). Admittedly I did so to keep the telepathy from finding out about my future knowledge (even if that not applicable anymore) but if I'm being honest that was only a small reason, s good reason but still not the main one.

My main reason for making sure my mind couldn't be read (at least by mortals, didn't think about higher beings on the level of celestials and whatever the similar level of being in this universe are) was because my thoughts are my own, you could be having to serve the person you hate most with a smile but at least you are able to talk shot about them in your own mind, what is life when you even have to be careful what you think. You can hold your tongue but you can't hold your brain, my thoughts are my own and like hell I'm gonna let anyway have a subscription to it which is why I figured out a way to protect my mind but even that pisses me off.

The fact that I had to come up with a way to keep my thoughts private, thoughts that shouldn't ever be invaded by anyone else, makes me unbelievably angry, so angry in fact that I didn't mind helping some of the most trustworthy people I knew to protect their own kids though I did take payment from them in whichever way they preferred (sometimes my payment depended on gender as well as charm). How much longer is it gonna take for this guy to hurry up, the suspense is killing me, I'd rather he just do whatever it is that he is going to do and just get it over with.

I'm still staring into the deep abyss that is his eyes when I notice out of the corner of my eye that his hand has clenched and I take back what I said before about him hurrying up, he can take his time, he can take all the time in the world, In fact I'm pretty sure that I've got nowhere to be so I can just wait if that's cool with you Mr Mindreader. The expression on his face doesn't change, in fact his face and body haven't changed a single bit since he appeared apart from the clenching of his hands, I mean he doesn't even have pupils to look at me with but I could just tell somehow that he was looking at me, oh he's unclench end his hand. Is that a good sign?

"YOU AFE LUCKY MORTAL!" Holy shit I think it actually was a good sign! "A HIGHER POWER HAS SPOKEN AND YOU HAVE BEEN SPARED THOUGH DO NOT THINK THIS IS THE END, I WILL BE KEEPING MY EYE ON YOU..." F.u.c.k, now I have an all powerful pervert watching me (crap he's reading my mind right now) and I mean pervert in the modern tongue which means higher being (great save), at least this means that I'm safe as long as I don't commit any sins which should be pretty easy.

"DON'T BE NAIVE MORTAL, SINS COME WITH EASE ESPECIALLY FOR ONE SUCH AS YOU!" He knocks me out of my relief with some prejudice, the hell does he mean 'one such as you'. "What do you mean, I admit in this new life in this new universe I may have not been a saint and even in my last universe I wasn't the greatest but I at least wanted to help and worked with the best of intentions so why would sins come with ease for me?" I question him, why would it be easy for me to commit sins?

"SINS COME WITH EASE, ONCE YOU COMMIT A SIN ONCE IT BECOMES EASIER TO COMMIT A SECOND TIME AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, EACH SIN MAKES A MARK ON YOUR SOUL AND DARKENS IT MAKING IT EASIER FOR YOU TO COMITT SINS AGAIN AND AGAIN. YOUR SOUL IN YOUR PREVIOUS UNIVERSE WAS GREY ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR SIN AND IN THIS NEW UNIVERSE YOUR SOUL WAS VERY DARK GREY ON THE PATH TO BECOMING PITCH BLACK, ONCE YOU MERGED BOTH OF YOUR SOULS THE TAINT AND SIN COMBINED AS WELL MAKING YOUR SOUL VERY DARK ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING BLACK." He tells me with a stoic face but I can't help but feel that he is acting smug, something stopped him from killing me but it's clear that he thinks I will commit a sin in the near future and then he will come to kill me which just pisses me off, I'm gonna become a f.u.c.kin' Saint just to f.u.c.k with this asshole.

If he read my thoughts he doesn't show it as he just continues on with his little speech. "WITH YOUR SOUL ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING BLACK IT WOULD BE EASY FOR YOU TO COMITT A SIN AND CROSS THE BARRIER FROM WHICH YOU COULD NEVER RETURN, IF YOU WERE TO ENTER A SITUATION IN WHICH AN INNOCENT HAD CRUCIAL INFORMATION WHICH COULD RUIN YOUR LIFE RATHER THAN THINKING OF DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS YOUR FIRST THOUGHT WOULD BE TO JUST KILL HIM AND GET RID OF THE PROBLEM. THEREFORE ITS NOT A MATTER OF IF I AM GOING TO COME AND JUDGE YOU, ITS A MATTER OF WHEN!" My soul is nearly black? What the f.u.c.k...

Well even if it would be easy to commit a sin the spirit has just told me of my of my problem, it may be easy for me to commit sins but I at least know what the sins are and if I can avoid them I should be able to get through this. If former killers like the Green Arrow and the Black Widow (who both have a very extensive list of victims) can turn it around and become heroes then why can't I? I'm at least glad that my past is behind me now, I have left the Marvel universe behind and though I feel a bit sad about that there's no point crying over spilt milk and I should just look to the future.

"FOOLISH MORTAL!" Hmm, what the hell does this guy want now. "YOU THINK YOU'VE LEFT YOUR PAST BEHIND? YOUR PREVIOUS UNIVERSE AND THIS UNIVERSE WERE NEVER MEANT TO CONNECT AND NOW THAT THEY HAVE, THAT CONNECTION IS UNBREAKABLE. YOU ARE THE LINK BETWEEN THE TWO UNIVERSES HOLDING THE PATHWAY TOGETHER WHICH IS WHY I WANTED TO ERASE YOU, AS LONG AS YOU ARE ALIVE THESE TWO UNIVERSE WILL ALWAYS BE CONNECTED!"

I'm.. I'm able to go back..?

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